On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:03:29 +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:

> On 2020-12-12, alister  wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:33:09 +0000, Mike Scott wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all; a quick query about speeds.
>>>
>>> I currently use an old i386 machine as home server (everything from
>>> local NFS file-store, to bind, to email server). It's an acer aspire
>>> r3700, running at 1.8GHz, 2 proc/4 thread job. It runs freebsd
>>> headless,
>>> and I use vnc for day-to-day operations on it.
>>>
>>> I'm contemplating replacing with a rpi4, which I gather is now
>>> supported by freebsd, using a usb3 external hard drive. But is this
>>> likely to prove slower or problematic for any other reason?
>>>
>>> TIA for any thoughts.
>>
>> Late to the party but my thoughts would be
>>
>> Network on I386 is probably 100mb/s at best so will be the main bottle
>> neck in your current set-up (actually network speeds are nearly always
>> the bottle neck on a network server.)
>> the pi has a 1000gb interface,
>                ^^^^^^ I wish !!! That should be 1Gb
>
>> IIRC it still cannot achieve full performance but it can achieve
>> considerably more than  100mb/s.
>
> You are out of date - Pi4 can do full gigabit and fill the pipe. Unlike
> previous Pi's it has native ethernet and seperate USB3 and 2.
> This is old news now.
>
>> therfore performance will be better than your current set-up even if it
>> is not as good as a dedicated NAS
>>
>> in a domestic environment how critical is this anyway?
>>
>> as always it boils down to fast, reliable, cheap - choose any 2.
>
> or 3 if using a pi4 :-)

Ok I stand corrected on network performace.
but that just simply confirms my main point that the data network is the
major bottle neck not the server platform, so Pi performance is not
critical & it will be easily up to the task in this setup.




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